SUSTAINED TRAINING COMPLETE

We have recently completed our sustained training with Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) on 20 Oct 2005. We now have one last underway coming up Nov 2-7 or the 6th, to offload AMMO in preps for upcoming shipyard DPIA '06. After that we go across the bay with only essential personnel and half the crew for DEPERM to De-Magnitize the ship. Nov 14-18 2005. After this our next short trip will be In Jan when we head up the Elizabeth River to Norfolk Naval Shipyards (NNSY) in Portsmouth, VA for DPIA '06 for Drydocking. We are still the surge ready carrier under Fleet Response Plan (FRP) until Mid-December.

I have put in leave request for the Christmas holiday leave for 16-27 Dec. to go home to Mississippi for Christmas. I will be in Norfolk for Thanksgiving and New Years with no plans as of yet, more to follow at a later date.